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	Peter Weir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cumulative high point of Peter Weir's early career was the international production The Year of Living Dangerously which united Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver in a story about loyality, idealism, love and ambition intertwined with political and humanitarian themes in the Indonesia of 1965.
		In 2003 Weir directed the blockbuster movie, Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe; it was successful with mainstream audiences despite its slow pace and focus on period detail and characterization, qualities that are characteristic of Weir's work.
		Although Peter Weir's films are extremely varied in subject and locale, all are linked by Weir's enduring thematic interest, that of exploring the reactions and behaviour of characters who find themselves in isolating or alienating situations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Weir (887 words)

	Peter Weir (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Weir is a politician in Northern Ireland.
		Weir was selected as his party's candidate to fight the 2001 general election in North Down, but a month before the election tensions between him and the party reached the stage where he was deselected and replaced by Sylvia Hermon.
		Weir was later expelled from the Ulster Unionist Party for refusing to support the re-election of David Trimble as First Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Weir_(politician) (243 words)

	Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society)
		Weir filmed in sequence, so that feelings on the set were running high by the time the moving denouement was played out.
		Weir uncorked the improvisational volcano that is Robin Williams - then remained vigilant so that he didn't erupt beyond the boundaries of the character.
		At midnight, Weir is holding a beer bottle as a microphone, into which he and his young friends sing a ragged version of "Please Please me" at the top of their lungs.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/PW01.HTM (3128 words)

	Peter Weir
		Weir's year abroad, most of which was spent in London working a variety of casual jobs, seems to have afforded him a fresh perspective from which to contemplate what it means to be an Australian, a question that would inform all his early full-length features.
		Weir was aware that any film of this kind is vulnerable to charges of romanticising (or “orientalising”, in postcolonial discourse) an indigenous culture (7).
		Weir, however, underscores the perils of the Australian connection to Britain, as the crux of the film rests on the premise that the British commanders knew that the operation was doomed to failure, and had little compunction in sacrificing the lives of Australia's youth.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/05/weir.html (11897 words)

	God of Filmmaking Peter Weir Director of Dead Poets Society, Gallipoli, Witness
		Weir has made a career around taking actors out of their stereo cast roles and making it work; for example Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society and Jim Carrey in The Truman Show.
		Weir's first Oscar recognized film is about a journalist caught in a country that is in political distress.
		Weir did this in effort to portray the growing bond in friendship between the boys.
	www.ambidextrouspics.com /html/peter_weir.html (1306 words)

	Interview With Peter Weir: Gallipoli
		WEIR: I wrote a story outline and gave it to David and that became the first of a series of drafts.
		WEIR: He came in for a photo call for a brochure on Gallipoli, I saw him and knew he had the special quality or qualities that we had combined in Archy.
		WEIR: Because they were the regiment that fought at the Battle of the Nek which we see at the end of the film.
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	Interviews with Peter Weir
		Peter Weir talks about his early influences, some of the ideas that went into the making of The Truman Show, as well as the re-release of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
		Peter Weir talks about searching for "broken" scripts, how he first approaching Mel Gibson for the film, the concept of photographing souls, as well as tidbits regarding other Weir films.
		Weir is dressed for the jungle in safari jacket and T-shirt and takes an obvious delight in his romantic surroundings.
	www10.pair.com /~crazydv/weir/articles (865 words)

	Battaglia - Il cinema di Peter Weir
		Peter Weir is one of the most important directors of the Australian New Wave, which developed in the Seventies.
		Secondly, certain other women in Weir's films seem to have a less important role in the story and, in this case, it could be said that their actions function as "satellites", that is they are consequences of the choices made at the kernel.
		Weir's films are also full of clocks and it can be seen that they belong to the Establishment while in the other flow of time, that of the new dimension the characters enter, they either stop or do not exist at all.
	www.ledonline.it /ledonline/battaglia.html (3109 words)

	Search Tuna Report for Peter Weir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Peter Weir Interview Some fragment of the global perception of Australia, especially in the 70s, was bound up in the film Picnic at Hanging Rock....
		Peter Weir @ Filmbug In 1985, Weir directed Harrison Ford in Witness, the haunting thriller in which a young Amish boy becomes a witness to a murder, sparking a clash of cultures within his community....
		Soundtracks Of Peter Weir's Films The first track is by Larry Wright, the street drummer who became well known around the time this film came out (he was also in the Mariah Carey video: Someday) for his incredible drumming abilities using only buckets....
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	Peter Weir @ Filmbug
		Weir received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director in 1999 for The Truman Show, which starred Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, the unwitting star of the longest-running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history.
		In addition, Weir was honored by BAFTA with the David Lean Award for Direction for the film.
		Weir's previous film, Dead Poets Society, a character drama starring Robin Williams as a joyously eccentric English teacher who inspires his students, earned the director an Academy Award nomination for Best Director as well as the prestigious BAFTA Award for Best Picture and Italy's Donatello Award for Best Direction.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1643 (494 words)

	Peter Weir on "The Truman Show"--The Lybarger Links Interview
		Weir claims that putting Carrey in such a position is hardly a stretch.
		Weir remembers several of the ideas that he and his collaborators had were left out so the storytelling would not be sacrificed.
		He declares, "I think, as we saw with the whole Lady Diana business, the very people who were outraged at the perceived cause of her death, which were the paparazzi chasing the car, were the same people who bought the magazines and the sensational tabloid papers.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/peterweir.htm (1012 words)

	OZ CINEMA.com : People : Peter Weir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		One of the most significant directors of the 1970s Australian cinematic rebirth, Peter Weir has continued to create films that both challenge and entertain audiences worldwide.
		Receiving limited praise for Homesdale, Weir made his mark on the art-house circuit with his first feature-length motion picture, The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) and attracted widespread critical approval with the masterfully impressionistic supernatural thriller, Picnic At Hanging Rock in 1975.
		While Weir's main considerations still lay in issues of clashing cultures and of "normal" individuals subjected to abnormal, unconquerable situations, his films became more epic in their scope.
	www.ozcinema.com /people/w/peterweir.html (437 words)

	Weir hopes for fourth time lucky at Oscars. 10/02/2004. ABC News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Film-maker Peter Weir hopes his Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World will bring him a long-awaited Oscar and ease his "primal" sense of competition over the top awards.
		Weir has lost out on three best his nominations for best director for his hit films The Truman Show (1998), Dead Poets Society (1989) and 1985's Witness, and on one best original screenplay nod for 1990's Green Card.
		Weir said Master and Commander star, Australian actor Russell Crowe, was too worried about shoulder injury to be disappointed at losing out on an Oscar nomination that many had predicted he would secure for the film.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/s1042201.htm (412 words)

	Peter Weir
		Known for making moody, complex dramas that often focus on the emotional struggles of men caught up in social change and/or upheaval, Australian director Peter Weir is regarded as one of the most solid directors in both his native country and in Hollywood.
		With Witness (1985), Weir made his first excursion onto American soil, documenting a culture clash viewed from the eyes of a wounded Philadelphia cop (Harrison Ford) recovering from his injuries on the farm of an Amish family.
		Weir took five years to follow up The Truman Show, but when the Napoleonic-era naval epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World came along in 2003, it was greeted with many rapturous reviews and earned multiple Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and yet another Best Director nod for Weir.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P116294 (712 words)

	Film Scouts Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Taormina, June 16, 2004 -- Australian director Peter Weir considers cinema to be an artform, and works on his movies like a painter would work on a painting, or a poet on a poem.
		Peter Weir also works with Hollywood, as director of commercial successes such as "The Truman Show", "Green Card" or "Dead Poets Society".
		Weir has some tips on how to avoid these traps: "The major question is how to maintain your individuality under pressure.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/interview.cfm?File=3084 (530 words)

	Biography for Peter Weir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Weir studied art and law at Sydney University before taking on a series of minor TV jobs.
		Weir enjoyed great commercial success with Dead Poets Society (1989), and earned his second Oscar nomination (the first was for Witness the following year he was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for his more commercially contrived comedy Green Card (1990).
		His next film didn't appear until 1993, but it was worth the wait: Fearless was one of his strongest in years, an arresting study of a man who survives an airplane crash, and finds his life irrevocably changed by the experience.
	us.imdb.com /Bio?Weir,+Peter (623 words)

	Films of Peter Weir
		In this, Weir is the quintessential Aussie; the perennial outsider.
		Weir claimed that he had "nothing to say about race relations" (Jacobs), but he cast a real spiritual leader (Nandjiwarra Amagula) in a pivotal role, and has the lawyer's wife, a fourth generation Australian, say that she has never met an Aborigine.
		Fearless extends Peter Weir's preoccupation with the outsider in an alien environment into the realm of philosophical enquiry.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /FINE/juhde/cossa982.htm (2649 words)

	The Truman Show - Peter Weir
		Peter Weir was born on August 21st, 1944 in Sydney, Australia.
		He studied arts and law at the University of Sydney, where he appeared in and wrote for undergraduate revues, but dropped out at the age of nineteen to enter his father's real estate business.
		He and his wife have two children, Ingrid and Julien who were born in 1973 and 1977.
	www.un-official.com /Truman/TSWeir.html (412 words)

	Peter Weir - netlexikon
		Peter Weir (geboren in Sydney, New South Wales, Australien, am 8.
		Weir studierte Kunst and Jura an der Universität von Sydney.
		Schon in seiner Zeit in Australien beweist Weir, dass er fähig ist, Schauspieler zu Höchstleistungen zu treiben.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Peter-Weir.html (322 words)

	Films of Peter Weir
		HE Australian film director Peter Weir has created, over the last twenty years, a body of work of remarkable quality and consistency of vision.
		Weir is more interested in atmosphere than explanations.
		Like his architect, who had a contract to design for "Nutty Nick," Weir has sometimes flitted with glossy success but there is every indication that he will continue to risk the narrow ledges and dangerous fruits of contemporary film making.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /cossa982.htm (2649 words)

	Peter Weir
		Weir was asked in 1979 to direct the ABC TV mini-series The Thorn Birds but he turned it down, saying the script was too melodramatic.
		Weir re-teamed with Harrison Ford for The Mosquito Coast (1986).
		Weir not only directed and produced, but wrote the screenplay based on the novels by Patrick O’Brian.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1164 (546 words)

	Peter Weir
		Peter Weir briefly attended Sydney University, dropped out to join his father's real estate business, and left that job for a trip to Europe in 1966.
		Weir's contribution to the Australian film renaissance of the late 1970s lay in his ability to portray the imminent disruption of the rational world by irrational forces hovering just beyond our mundane lives.
		Weir contrasted the imported and repressive cultural values of the English-style boarding school with the unsettling but liberating influence of the natural environment of Hanging Rock, where the girls' sexuality is stirred by the phallic and frankly unrefined rock.
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	Peter Weir, filmmaker
		To watch a Peter Weir film is to step into an otherworldly place.
		In the early part of his career, Sydney-born Weir alternated between television and features with what was becoming a signature style -- thoughtful, yet often terrifying tales of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
		Even Weir films that fail to connect (i.e., 1993's "Fearless") are worthy of examination as proof that there is still room for an auteur to make big pictures in today's Hollywood machine.
	www.vnuemedia.com /thr/interviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2024216 (441 words)

	The Peter Weir Cave
		Here you'll find a collection of interviews with Peter Weir and articles that deal with his films.
		Let other Peter Weir fans suggest some great films to watch or suggest some of your own.
		Once you are all done searching through the Weir caves, why not visit the story cave to view my great "works of art".
	www.peterweircave.com /main.html (299 words)

	Coffret Peter Weir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		L'uvre australienne de Peter Weir mérite donc d'être redécouverte.
		Se profile le style de Peter Weir qui se déshabille et feint la retenue : surimpression diaphane des visages découpés sur le ciel, ode à la nudité suggestive, lyrisme caniculaire.
		Renversement qui s'opère dans le regard en prismes de Peter Weir, et prouve qu'il n'a pas toujours été écologique : l'homme vibre par la nature mais celle-ci détruit l'homme, appelé à se reconstruire, à bâtir autour d'elle (l'horizon Mosquito Coast) ou simplement à disparaître en son sein.
	www.fluctuat.net /imprimer.php3?id_article=1500 (773 words)

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